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  • August 14, 2013
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    Region 2 again tops country in CSEC results… – Zimeena Rasheed creates history with 20 subjects

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Chronicle – FOR the second consecutive year, a student from the Essequibo Coast in Region 2(Pomeroon/Supenaam) has topped the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations, this time with a regional record of twenty subjects. Sixteen-year-old Zimeena Rasheed of Anna Regina Secondary School obtained 18 grade ones and 2 grade twos, making the Essequibo region – as well as…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    A call to swift action

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – GOVERNMENT SEEMS TO have woken up to the realization of the need to act and to do so with some measure of urgency in an effort to stop the economic morass which has stymied or eliminated growth in recent years. This call to action was evident, given some of the measures outlined last evening by…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Mottley blasts Sinckler’s Budget

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – A THROW-YOUR-HANDS-up-in-the-air Budget! That was how Opposition Leader Mia Mottley described yesterday’s Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals delivered by Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler. “It is a cut-and-paste Budget with no clear concept as to where we are going or what we will achieve. Bajans will feel pain but, unlike the past, you will not know…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Tough cuts

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News – BARBADIANS WILL BE FORCED TO ENDURE 19 months of pain, restraint, public sector hiring freezes and possible job cuts. These measures will be instituted while Government tries to spur the key foreign exchange-earning sectors with incentives for growth to turn around the struggling economy. Burdened by nearly six years of little to no growth in…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    No more ‘free’ university education

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – THERE has been a major shift in financing the education of Barbadians attending the University of the West Indies (UWI). Finance and Economic Affairs Minister, Christopher Sinckler, made the announcement yesterday that from September next year Barbadians will be called on to pay tuition fees at the UWI. Delivering his Budgetary proposals against the background of…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Freeze in hiring

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – FINANCE and Economic Affairs Minister, Christopher Sinckler, has announced a freeze in hiring within the public service. There will be a “total freeze on all new hiring in the central public service and across all statutory entities”. This was the word coming from the Minister as he presented his Budget and Financial Measures in the House…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    New strategic plan for 2013-2020

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – The reality is clear and the future yet grim. Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler, has said that the Government’s approach to the new Growth and Development Strategy (BGDS) 2013- 2020 will be more aggressive than its predecessor, the Medium-Term Fiscal Strategy. In outlining its recommendations in the House of Assembly yesterday, where he…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Rescue mission

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – FINANCE and Economic Affairs Minister, Christopher Sinckler yesterday announced a 19-month rescue mission for the Barbados economy that he said would see a lower fiscal deficit and improved activity. In what amounted to some very tough actions to deal with a ballooning deficit and a declining economy, the Minister used his fourth Budget to announce a…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Move to eliminate or merge specific government entities

    BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Guardian – Eighteen government entities are in line for a merger or elimination was the implication made by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Christopher Sinckler as he outlined the 2013 budgetary proposals. The Minister of Finance pulled together a team of senior officials in the ministry to conduct a preliminary assessment of a list of statutory…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    HAITI-POLITICS-Taiwan President arrives in Haiti at start of Caribbean tour

    PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – President Ma Ying jeou arrived in Haiti Tuesday at the start of a visit to several Caribbean countries. He was met on arrival by President Michel Martelly and will later participate in the ground-breaking ceremony for a new Supreme Court building to replace the one destroyed in the January 2010 earthquake that also killed…

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